Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sanae Takaichi, the newly-elected leader of Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), attends a press conference ...

Japan's Prime Minister contender Shinjiro Koizumi, who is currently Agriculture Minister and son of the former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, attends a press conference about his running in the ...

TOKYO (AP) — In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan's long-governing Liberal Democrats, and likely next prime minister, is an ultra-conservative ...

Take a breath, markets. Japan is still gradualist, consensus-seeking Japan. Sanae Takaichi doesn’t look much like President Donald Trump. But investors reacted to her surprise Oct. 4 election as ...

TOKYO -- Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the ...

Japan Politics Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Sanae Takaichi, center right, celebrates with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become ...

TOKYO — Japan's governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the ...